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The filberd: or, the compleatest medley of wit ever yet published: being the marrow of all other jest-books. Calculated To kill Care, banish Sorrow, promote Mirth, and prove an everlasting Cordial to Low Spirits. Being a Comical Collection of Funny Stories, Lively Jests, Witty Repartees, Humourcus Tales, Smart Quibbles, Ridiculous Bulls, Coaical Humbugs, Droll Narrations, New Conundrums, Merry Epigrams, Keen Epitaphs, Toasts, Sentiments, Hob Nobs, Choice Songs, Diverrting Poems, &c. The whole teaching the agreeable Art of Story-Telling, and furnishing Pieces of Wit for the Amusement and Improvement of both Sexes. Wit, a thousand different Shapes it bears, And comely in a thousand Forms appears.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

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Format:
Book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English wit and humor--Early works to 1800.
English wit and humor.
Genre:
Jestbooks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (60p.,plate )
Other Title:
Filberd
The filberd
Place of Publication:
London : printed for S. Smith, in West Smithfield; and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, [1775?]
Notes:
Price from imprint: price only Six Pence.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T77040.
OCLC:
642692085

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